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			<h1>A day mostly wasted</h1>
			<p>Day 00852: Thursday, 2017 July 06</p>
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	<h2>To-do list</h2>
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			Acquire stuff for my new home:
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					A bed
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					A dustpan
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					A carpet broom
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			Inform people that I&apos;ve moved
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					Relevant online accounts
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			Finish stabilizing <a href="https://git.volatile.ch./y.st./include.d/releases">include.d</a> and put out another release (low priority)
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			Clean up my apartment
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				<li>
					Clean up the living room
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				<li>
					Clean up the kitchen
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			Finish the library's &quot;bingo&quot; sheet (these tasks were typed verbatim, and include any mistakes and quirks present on the sheet handed to me)
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					Attend any library program
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					Read a book you found using Novelist. A librarian can help!
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					Read a nonfiction title
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					Read a poem by Oregon Poet Laureate Elizabeth Woody
				</li>
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					Read a book checked out from the Springfield Library (print, ebook, or audio)
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				<li>
					<del>Visit somewhere new in downtown Springfield</del>
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					Read a graphic novel
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					Read an author you have never read before
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					Get outside: read in a Willamalane park for one hour willamalane.org
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					Browse the Gale Virtual Reference Library. A librarian can help!
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					Build, draw, or make something based on a book that you read
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					Read a science fiction title
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					Share a book recommendation
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					Read an award-winning book
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					Read a book from a library display
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					Suggest a library program you would attend
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					Read a new book (published in 2016 or 2017)
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					Read a young adult or children's book
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					<del>Build community: do something social. Try one of our book groups or go to Springfilm!</del>
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					Read something funny and have a good laugh :)
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					Look at the art in the City Hall Gallery. There's a new show every month!
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					Volunteer for a couple hours at a community organization of your choice.
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					Download one of the library's free apps or search in a database. A librarian can help!
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					Read a book that takes place in another country
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					<del>Recommend our BINGO challenge to friends or family</del>
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	<h2>General news</h2>
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		It seems the ink cartridges weren&apos;t the right type for my printer after all.
		There&apos;s the model name, but also a sub-model number, that didn&apos;t match.
		Why do companies reuse their model names for incompatible devices!?
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		I went to see a movie today at an event held by the public library.
		I was bored of it quite quickly, but the movie dragged on.
		It seemed to have no real plot, and just followed someone that&apos;d gotten shot as they slowly died and tried to outrun those that pursued them.
		In the end, I guess they escaped, but only moments later, they died from their gunshot wounds.
		I guess I thought there&apos;s be some sort of socialising afterwards or something, but of course there wasn&apos;t.
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	<p>
		I forgot to mention before that I recommended the library &quot;bingo&quot; challenge to Vanessa and our mother, so I have that marked off my list as well.
	</p>
	<p>
		After the movie, I found a surprise.
		Someone had stolen the back light off my bicycle.
		Not both lights, just the one.
		Some people are crazy.
		Honestly though, I should&apos;ve been detaching them and bringing them with me every time, but I&apos;ve gotten really lazy about it as of late.
		It&apos;s amazing they weren&apos;t stolen months ago.
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		My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
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	<h2>Mental health watch</h2>
	<p>
		With my affliction under control (not gone, but managed), I was able to sort out the feelings I&apos;d been having in a more-logical way.
		I&apos;ve been seeing certain men and certain women attractive.
		However, when I think of genitals, I feel an aversion to vaginas and a draw towards penises.
		Additionally (and I don&apos;t think I mentioned it directly in my journal when it was happening), in the beginning, I imagined myself in a pair with a woman, just entering the sexual stage of the relationship.
		However, there was always some issue.
		My penis wouldn&apos;t become erect, I wouldn&apos;t be able to stand the feeling of the vagina, or some other such scenario.
		I&apos;d always end up having to apologise, then either do the work manually or put on a strap-on over my actual, limp penis.
		However, when I fantasise about men, it&apos;s always something positive.
		Successful sex, cuddling on the couch, cooking dinner together ... all sorts of things.
		So what does this all mean?
		I think I might be biromantic, capable of a romantic relationship with someone of either sex.
		However, I&apos;m full-blown homosexual, not a half-repressed bisexual as I&apos;d feared.
		This is all speculation, and I still don&apos;t know exactly what I am, but it makes sense to me.
		If I want a relationship that involves sex (and annoyingly, that&apos;s what part of my brain is begging for), I&apos;m going to need to stick with men.
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